16 quotes found
“When people start talking about Right and Left, they stop talking about right and wrong.”
“Librarian: taking the E.T. out of Libertarian.”
“If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires victims, then I say: 'The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!”
“Until recently, attempts to resolve the contradictions created by urbanization, centralization, bureaucratic growth and statification were viewed as a vain counterdrift to "progress"a counterdrift ...”
“I think Liberals may tend to be more people oriented, whereas Conservatives are more task oriented. It makes Liberals look softheaded to Conservatives and Conservatives hardhearted to Liberals. I'm...”
“The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.”
“Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check.”
“In the first place, it would efface from everybodysconscience the distinction between justice and injustice.No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a cer-tain degree, but the safest w...”
“We really dont get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.”
“The government never minds having more power, and is always prepared to paper over the problems it creates. An economy not bludgeoned by powerful elites is the ideal we should seek, even if it has ...”
“As regards the social apparatus of repression and coercion, the government, there cannot be any question of freedom. Government is essentially the negation of liberty. It is the recourse to violenc...”
“The market economy is delivering miracles by the minute and yet we hardly notice or care; worse, we denounce the realization of this dream of all of history, this coming of heaven on earth and call...”
“MY THESIS, in simplest terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful; the role of government, then, is to keep the peace...Keeping the peace means no more than prohibiting...”
“In the first place, it would efface from everybody’sconscience the distinction between justice and injustice.No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a cer-tain degree, but the safest ...”
“We really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.”
